Fair Ministry
The Eastern Carolina Agricultural Fair is coming to Florence this year. The FBA began a ministry to the fair workers in October 2009 with a chicken bog meal on their set up day. The ministry has grown since then. Some of the activities include:
- Free chicken bog meal on set up day
- Free Yard Sale
- Free Hair Cuts
- Free Blood Pressure Checks
- Free doughnuts and coffee
- Free breakfast and worship service on Sunday morning
- Children’s Ministry
- Free photographs
- “Snack Sack” distribution on closing night
The FREE Yard Sale is a lot of fun and it takes a lot of items. Some volunteers like to collect items all year long and use coupons to get them. Items that are needed are:
- Reading glasses (new or used)
- Shampoo
- Deodorant – men’s and women’s
- Soap – NO Ivory soap please
- Razors
- Shaving cream
- Tylenol
- Advil
- OVER THE COUNTER cold medicine (NOT the kind you have to sign with the pharmacist to get)
- Blankets
- Twin sheets
- Queen sheets
- 4 or 6 pack of toilet paper OR individually wrapped rolls of TP
- Paper towels
- Kleenex
- Laundry detergent
- Pop Tarts
- Cereal
- “Pop-top” foods (ravioli, Vienna sausage, etc)
- Duffle bags, small suitcases